Romney accuses media of ‘vast left-wing conspiracy’

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Mitt Romney has accused the media of a left wing conspiracy against himMichael Conroy

Anne Barrowclough

Last updated at 6:02AM, April 18 2012

Mitt Romney said last night that his bid for the presidency would be hampered
by “a vast left-wing conspiracy” in the media.

The presumptive Republican nominee claimed that newspaper and television
journalists were “inclined to do the president’s bidding” making it more
difficult for him to win over voters ahead of November’s election.

Mr Romney’s suggestion deliberately echoed Hillary Clinton’s complaints from
the late 1990s when she claimed that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was
responsible for pressurising her husband during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

The droll reprisal of the Secretary of State’s remarks came during an
interview on a right-wing